Google Finally Starts Pushing Updates for Its iOS Apps, Major Apps Yet to Get Updated

Google usually pauses updated for its apps in the holiday season every year and resumes it in early January, in order to have no issues during the holiday period as there are not many engineers to fix these problems. This year, however, the pause on Google’s iOS apps lasted a bit longer as app updates resumed only earlier this week. There were speculations that Google was not updating its iOS apps in order to avoid Apple’s App Store privacy labels that require developers to list their privacy practices and how they handle data. Apart from that Google has said that it will add privacy labels to all its apps and as pointed out by The Verge, 12 Google apps already have the privacy labels without having been updated. Play Movies and TV and Google Translate followed on December 28, However, major Google apps like Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, and Photos are yet to see an update for iOS this year.